Season 6, Episode 7: Bookish Get Togethers + Best Versus Favorite Books
Currently Reading
Meredith Schwartz
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Kaytee are discussing:
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Bookish Moments: seeing each other in person and comfort Kindle reading
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Current Reads: books new and old, from new to beloved authors
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Deep Dive: what we think about “best” versus “favorite” books
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The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives
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2:01 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week
2:12 - The Popcast
3:07 - Book People
6:24 - Kindle Oasis
7:15 - Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer
8:04 - Current Reads
8:11 - Cutting Teeth by Chandler Baker (Kaytee)
8:28 - The Husbands by Chandler Baker
8:29 - CR Season 4: Episode 33
8:32 - Whisper Network by Chandler Baker
8:33 - CR Season 2: Episode 4
8:40 - Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
8:42 - Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage
13:00 - Malice by Keigo Higashino (Meredith)
13:43 - The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino
15:42 - The Brave Learner by Julie Bogart (Kaytee)
19:12 - A Most Agreeable Murder by Julia Seales (Meredith)
24:42 - Invisible Son by Kim Johnson (Kaytee)
24:58 - This Is My America by Kim Johnson
26:43 - Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson
26:54 - The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
28:01 - Plum Island by Nelson DeMille (Meredith)
29:12 - The Gold Coast by Nelson DeMille
31:50 - Deep Dive: The Best Books Versus Our Favorite Books
31:56 - @ezeekat aka Jaysen Headley
32:05 - Ander and Santi Were Here by Jonny Garza Villa
33:40 - Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
33:42 - A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
34:37 - A Most Agreeable Murder by Julia Seales
35:45 - Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
35:50 - Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
38:20 - The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
38:28 - Babel by R.F. Kuang
39:28 - All the Lonely People by Mike Gayle
44:48 - Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
44:51 - Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
45:59 - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
46:53 - Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
46:54 - In Memoriam by Alice Winn
47:28 - Meet Us At The Fountain
47:39 - I wish we would all focus on something to learn in our reading lives. (Kaytee)
49:24 - Outlive by Dr. Peter Attia and Bill Gifford
49:56 - I wish to press The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier into readers’ hands. (Meredith)
49:56 - The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey readers, welcome to the currently reading podcast. |
| 0:13.9 | We are bookish best friends who spend time every week talking about the books that we've |
| 0:17.7 | read recently and as you know we won't shy away from those strong opinions so get ready. |
| 0:24.2 | We are light on the chit chat, heavy on the book talk and our descriptions will always |
| 0:27.7 | be spoiler free. |
| 0:29.0 | Today we'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive and then we'll visit the fountain. |
| 0:33.7 | I'm Meredith Mundy Schwartz, a mom of four in full time CEO living in Austin, Texas and |
| 0:38.6 | my oasis got me through a really hard month and I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mom of four |
| 0:45.0 | living in Arizona and I am starting to get back into the swing of the reading life. |
| 0:49.7 | This is episode number seven of season six and we are so glad you're here. |
| 0:53.9 | Okay, I am so glad that you're beginning to see some routine, some normality. |
| 1:00.1 | Oh, that makes me feel so good for you. |
| 1:02.6 | I started putting up artwork today Meredith and yeah because I don't have like big boxes to |
| 1:06.9 | unpack anymore and I that's what really like feels homing to me is when like I see our faces |
| 1:12.9 | on the walls again and so that's exciting. |
| 1:15.7 | Right, that's a good part of your process. |
| 1:17.3 | I know we saw your books go in your bookshelves and and just getting a little more routine |
| 1:22.9 | is with all of your life is helpful and it will enable you to get back with some bookish |
| 1:28.4 | routine. |
| 1:29.4 | So I know we're all rooting for you on that for sure. |
| 1:31.7 | Definitely. |
| 1:32.7 | All right, so we'll let you know right up here at the top of the show that we are going |
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